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Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 10:09:18 +1000 (EST)
From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Can't mount ad0s2 - sourced
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On Mon, 19 May 2003, Brian Astill wrote:

> I asked a question about my inability to mount /dev/ad02.
> The drive is partitioned DOS-DOS-FBSD.
>
> If I set up the partitions Primary1-Primary2-Primary3, WinNT "hides"
> Primary2, and I have to "unhide" using Partition Magic every time I
> boot into that hateful OS.  However, I CAN acess Primary2 from FBSD.
>
> If I set up the partitions Primary1-Logical1-Primary2, WinNT is happy,
> but Logical1 cannot be mounted by FBSD.
>
> Looks like there is no way round the DOS/BIOS limitation.  :-(
>

Sure there is. Show us what fdisk and disklabel say.

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